when you're dangerously mixing religion and politics. I think this guy is trying to discredit a Democratic president in a subtle way. It struck me strange that, after all of these years, I've never heard where Kennedy took this quote from someone else without attibuting it. The priest actually did use the word "plagiarized."

I think it's time the clergy stop getting a free pass on imposing their politics on their parishioners.

Khalil Gibran published the ... saying in his 1925 work titled "The New Frontier", Thirty-six years before President Kennedy's 1961 Inaugural Address.

"Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in a desert." Khalil Gibran

ask your pastor to explain to you from a Biblical standpoint just exactly how his political activism from the pulpit advances the Biblical role and mission of the church.

I'm betting that whatever explanation he offers ultimately can be reduced to an attempt to create an ideal society (according to his interpretation of Biblical standards) - and most likely one in which folks are subject to his authority as a pastor. It is about being right and it is about seeking power.

It doesn't matter if you prove him wrong about the JFK speech because it is just a tree in a very large forest.

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